Introduction Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the ...

The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict.

In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...

reviously the Linux kernel had a "Code of Conflict" that some might feel is rather harsh. But now it's been replaced by a Code of Conduct that is derived from the Contributor Covenant that has ...

Even Coraline Ada Ehmke, who merely wrote the code of conduct which has been adopted by Google, GitHub, Eclipse and now the Linux community, is being personally attacked on Twitter.

Changing 30 lines of code in Linux could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent, researchers claim. Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada say making a small ...

Who's writing Linux today? Capitalists The Linux Foundation has released its 2015 report "Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They Are Doing and Who is Sponsoring ...

LWN.net reckons that Finger, 84, contributed to 94 Linux kernel releases, or 1,464 commits total, at least since kernel 2.6.16 in 2006 (and when the kernel started using git to track changes).

Defect densities below 0.7 Particularly interesting for fans of Linux, however, is that the free and open source operating system “remains a benchmark for quality,” in Coverity’s estimation.